School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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- One night as Denis Larkin of Delvin Co Westmeath was coming home from playing cards, he heard strange music as he was passing Clonainey graveyard. It sounded like a person moaning. He looked out + said "Lord have mercy on the dead." As soon as he said it, a huge butterfly overshadowed the whole graveyard. He said again "Lord have mercy on the dead" + when he said it the butterfly went down into the monastery.
- Collector
- Mrs O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyleroe Little, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Rose Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath